So planets are tiny compared to the distance they are from each other, at least according to that YouTube video I watched. Are electrons and neutrons similarly sized and spaced? And if so is that some E=MCsquared type stuff?
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This isn’t exact, but… If an atom was the size of a soccer stadium, the nucleas would be the size of a pea. Scaling our solar system that way would make the sun about the size of a golf ball.
The sizes are for different reasons. The planets are just condensed matter that had enough inertia to keep missing the sun. Their speed determines their stable orbit. They can be at any distance and inference can send them into the sun or out of the solar system
Electrons are actively moving around at discrete energy levels and can easily be moved up to the next discreet level then fall back down by releasing a photon. They can be forced of an atom and make it an ion, they can be forced into interacting with the proton, or they can be shared between more than one atom.
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